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Full Name: Condivi, Ascanio

Gender: male

Date Born: 1525

Date Died: 1574

Place Born: Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno, Marches, Italy

Place Died: Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno, Marches, Italy

Home Country/ies: Italy

Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style) and Renaissance

Overview

Painter and purported author of an early and generally reliable biography of Michelangelo in 1553.

Condivi came from a merchant family in Ripatransone where he was raised. He attended school there for five years beginning in 1537. He moved to Rome around 1545, where he met the senior Michelangelo and entered his workshop.

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During the same time that Giorgio Vasari wrote his first edition of his Le vite de più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori (Lives of the Artists), 1550, Condivi determined to write a biography solely of Michelangelo.

This became his Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti, which appeared in 1553. Scholars today believe Michelangelo virtually dictated the entire t